Hugh Palliser

Hugh Palliser (26 February 1723-19 March 1796) was an admiral of the Royal Navy of Great Britain during the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, and the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Hugh Palliser was born in Kirk Deighton in the North Riding of Yorkshire on 26 February 1723. In 1735, he entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman and served in the Battle of Cape Sicie (Toulon) in 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1759, during the Seven Years' War, he captured the Lower Town of Quebec during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and a year later he bottled up French ships in Turkey. In 1764 he was made the new commander-in-chief of Newfoundland, and in 1778 he was made Vice-Admiral of the Blue.

During the American Revolutionary War, he aided Admiral Augustus Keppel during the First Battle of Ushant in 1778, but their defeat led to both of them being court-martialed. He was later acquitted and in 1780 made Governor of Greenwich Hospital. He died on 19 March 1796 at the age of 73.